Stephen King Short Stories General Discussion

I'm reading Night Shift now. Basically only on my way to and from work, when I'm on the train. Yesterday I read Jerusalem's Lot, this morning I began Sometimes They Come Back. I remember seeing the movie for Sometimes They Come Back, and I don't remember thinking one way or another about it. The story is interesting, though. I believe I've read it before, but it's still kind of vague.

Jerusalem's Lot is one I skipped over previously, however. Perhaps I thought it was sort of like Dracula, but not really - a tad more boring or something. Turns out it's not Vampiresque at all, but has some religious and satanic themes to it. It was simply written in the style of Dracula. And it has a killer of an ending. Initially, on the last page, I was thinking "what a sucky ending", then the last line came up and I was chuckling. Not bad.

Sometimes They Come Back was pretty good. The ending had to have been totally different to what they put in the movie, but I forget what happened at the end of the movie.

Read Children of the Corn today. Meh.

Night Surf confused me. I got the story, and I got what was going on.... I just don't see why it ended when it did.

I've just started reading "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" and am only on the first chapter. But so far, the first story is not bad. Little slow to start but not bad.

Favorite Short Story collection by SK so far is "Everything's Eventual".

I tried to get Everything's Eventual at a book store a few weeks ago (cause we were talking about it in the 1408 thread). Couldn't find it. I think I know another store that may have it. I'm totally gonna check it out though.

I've read parts of everythings evenutal. i read the short story books in between books.

some of the sotries were pretty cool. I like the one about the dude that wakes up paralised on an autopsy table.